4 Art Director jobs in Egypt

Job Location
CAIRO BUSINESS OFFICE
Job Description
Job Family Summary:
+ The Artwork Specialist falls under the broader job family of Creative Design and Production. This job family focuses on the creation, development, and production of visual elements for various media channels. The Artwork Specialist plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality and accuracy of these visual elements.
Job Description:
+ The Artwork Specialist is responsible for creating and managing artwork for various products. This includes designing layouts, selecting colors, and choosing fonts that align with brand guidelines.
+ The role also involves collaborating with multiple teams to ensure that the artwork meets the product specifications and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
+ Create and manage artwork for various products in line with brand guidelines.
+ Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure artwork meets product specifications and regulatory requirements.
+ Review and approve final layouts for print production.
+ Ensure all artwork is delivered within project timelines.
+ Maintain a database of all artwork files for future reference.
Job Qualifications
Qualifications:
+ A degree in Graphic Design or a related field.
+ Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
+ Attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics.
+ Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines.
+ Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with various teams.
Must Have Skills:
+ Degree in Graphic Design/related field
+ 1 -3 years' experience in graphic design or in studio
+ Studio experience/knowledge
+ Proficient in Adobe Illustrator
+ Proficient in Photoshop
+ Proficient in Adobe InDesign
Nice to Have Skills:
+ Strong understanding of brand architecture and design principles for visual consistency.
+ P rint Production Experience/knowledge
JUST SO YOU KNOW:
You will get a competitive compensation package, in line with your qualifications and experience.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Our people are all equally talented in unique ways: we come from diverse traditions, personal experiences and points of view, and we want to include yours. Our mission of Diversity and Inclusion is: "Everyone valued. Everyone included. Everyone performing at their peak". Are you ready to inspire us with your creative ideas?
About us
We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Visit to know more.
Our consumers are diverse and our talents - internally - mirror this diversity to best serve it. That is why we're committed to building a winning culture based on Inclusion and our ideal candidate is passionate about the same principle: you will join our daily effort of being "in touch" so we craft brands and products to improve the lives of the world's consumers now and in the future. We want you to inspire us with your unrivaled ideas.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.
Job Schedule
Full time
Job Number
R000136997
Job Segmentation
Experienced Professionals

**Job Description**:
Responsibility and Focus

Creative Directors oversee the creative team, including art directors, copywriters, and designers. They ensure the success of content or a product, guiding it through from conception to production.

Creative directors take on a managerial role while keeping one foot in the trenches, helping to generate and produce big ideas.

They also develop and nourish the client relationship with the agency when focusing on big ideas and campaigns.

Main Tasks

Technical & Product

Managing the creative process from conception to production.

They will be expected to manage and cultivate the career development of other team members.

Meeting with and determining the client’s creative needs.

Meeting with clients and sharing their needs with the rest of the team.

Brainstorming alongside the creative team and coming up with different innovative ways in which to convey the client’s desired goals and objectives.

Developing campaigns, translating ideas whilst negotiating with clients to achieve something that matches their vision and the agency's.

Convincingly pitching the team’s ideas to the client.

Initiating the process to begin the project once a client accepts a proposal.

Overseeing every step of the creative process.

Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency

Working with the tailored brand team to produce new ideas for business branding, campaigns, and communications.

Evaluating trends, assess new data and keep up-to-date with the latest marketing techniques.

Assisting clients in resolving issues by responding to business objectives in a timely and structured manner.

Creating and implementing tailored marketing plans based on individual client requirements.

Directing brainstorming meetings and creative sessions with client.

Shaping brand standards and creating procedures to ensure all products are brand appropriate.

Supervising the department's daily workflow, assigning project workload, and monitoring deadlines and budgets.

Innovative & Analytical Mindset

Extensive knowledge of design and relevant software.

Familiarity with film-making techniques, language and trends.

Video editing, copywriting and HTML mindset.

A keen awareness of current trends in advertising.

People & Leadership
- Seeks others' feedback to develop self-awareness, strengths and address development area.
- Is able to proactively raise issues to improve effective team working and collaboration.
- Is able to communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner.
- Collaborates with stakeholders and embraces an inclusive based environment.
- Is able to make valuable contributions to discussions and brainstorming sessions, providing insight and point of view.
- Able to build relationships quickly with others and engages personally with peers and clients.
- Treats others with respect, listens to other perspectives, especially when they are different from own.
- Able to tackle problems in a timely manner and develop contingency plans that focus on problem resolution.
- Drives a culture of trust with Peers, clients and all other stakeholders.

Self
- Is able to take ownership for actions and deals with consequences in a mature manner.
- Able to adjust performance based on experiences and feedback and showcases agility and flexibility.
- Displays openness to the ideas of others and leverages them when beneficial for the business.
- Showcases curiosity and open mindset towards new ways of doing things.
- Is able to set high impact objectives and goes above and beyond to exceed performance.
- Demonstrates the Growth Mindset and is able to take ownership of personal development and growth.
- Capable of constructively challenging the status-quo and takes risks to challenge internal and external perspectives.
- Approaches situations and individuals with honesty, integrity and humbleness.
- Displays resilience and maintains drives and a positive outlook when faced with challenges.

**Qualifications**:
Education and Experience Required

Bachelor’s degree.

At least five to ten years of experience.

Elevated soft skills that enable them to inspire creativity and work well with different personality types, all while juggling various projects.

Core Attributes

**Analytical Thinking**

Breaks down problems and issues into sub-components and then assesses the costs, benefits and risks of various options prior to selecting a particular approach.

**Strategic Thinking**

Can analyze organizational strengths and weaknesses and then combine these with knowledge of the industry, market and organization to develop long-term strategy.

**Product Knowledge**

Has a good understanding of product line features and benefits and uses that knowledge to optimize sales with each client. Understands the product market and uses this knowledge to increase personal credibility and product sales. Keeps abreast of competitors' activities and typically responds quickly to what the competition is doing.

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Company Description

We help grow many of the world's most iconic brands at Leo Burnett. We help grow even more of the world's most talented people. You'll find at Leo Burnett an agency built on ideas and dependent upon the people behind them. A culture that doesn't just respect creativity but cherishes it. And a community where the path you choose is your own, the places you can go limitless.

Today, Leo Burnett is one of the most awarded creative networks in the world. We believe creativity has the power to transform human behavior, and we use ours to help our clients' brands discover their "human purpose" and play meaningful, active roles in people's lives.

**Job Description**:
**Responsibility and Focus**

The Associate Creative Director (art) is involved in the development of creative concepts, working with all disciplines in the agency including copywriters and designers to build cohesive and effective campaigns.

Their focus is on the visual design and art direction of advertising campaigns. They ensure the visual design aligns with the overall creative direction and strategy of the campaign, and that it effectively communicates the desired message to the target audience.

As a close ally of the Creative Director, they are stepping into a managerial role to mentor team members, especially art directors and designers. In addition, they oversee the production of the visual elements of the campaign, ensuring they are executed to the highest standards.

The Associate Creative Director, Art is responsible for leading the creative work. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently produce exceptional concepts and final work, and working closely with account management to ensure that our clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work.
- Works with the Creative Director to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the team.
- Helps develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration
- Promote a culture of creative quality and accountability and ensure creative deliverables meet both our clients’ expectations and our own standards of excellence
- Develops and reviews creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration
- Demonstrates to clients that an understanding of their marketing challenges and is responsive to their strategic needs in proposing creative solutions.
- Trains new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures, and works with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
- Works with the upper management team to plan and pursue continuing strategic growth of agency billings and participate in new business pitch opportunities.
- Develops and evaluates creative concepts, copy and art, at pre-determined points and providing direction prior to review by account management.
- Sets high creative standards that lead to a body of work that creates enthusiastic customers and clients, and is consistently recognized by agency management as on strategy and unique.
- Leads the creative efforts on new business assignments, as needed.
- Ensures that creative presentations to the client meet the highest professional standards.
- Manages the workload for assigned book of business to maximize the productivity and quality of work from the creative staff.
- Imparts outdoor industry expertise and experience to the team.
- Conceives and create experience design solutions that meet client objectives
- Effectively communicate creative concepts and strategies to both clients and our internal team.
- Designing comps, storyboards, initial graphic concepts, and final deliverables
- Brainstorms and developing campaigns while working with clients on multiple projects at once
- Assists the Creative Director to improve the Creative group’s technical and creative performance.
- Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.
- Ideates, writes and executes original and iconic creative concepts in response to client briefs, objectives or goals.
- Extends client relationships and explore new ways to deliver value.
- Presents, shares and reviews creative work with Executive Creative Director/s, Account Management and Planning Leads as well as members of the Management Team
- Manages multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
- Collaborates effectively with Account Management, Planning and the broader creative team to develop disruptive and iconic work
- Provides leadership and professional development to department staff
- Mentors and trains team members, write performance reviews, and allocate work
- Set goals and KPIs for each team member, and works with them to achieve these.

**People & Leadership**
- Seeks others' feedback to develop self-awareness, strengths and address development area.
- Is able to proactively raise issues to improve effective team work